Blogs from South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 268

This part of the trip was a grueller! As the title suggests, it's the equivalent distance of travelling from London to Moscow.We drove anything from 200 to 700 kilometres per day, Bertie the vamper can held out great and we ended up doing the leg really quickly, sightseeing included, 4 days! We stopped off at the Great Australian Bight and saw loads of Southern Right whales as they made their way up the coast to warmer waters. To call South Australia vast/desolate was an understatement, particularly a stretch called "The Nullabor Plain", no trees, just scrubland an bushes galore here. The roads were like an obstacle course, for 7 hours a day we played "Dodge the Road Kill", you literally had to weave between the kangaroos run over by Road Trains ( Massive 2 to 3 ... read more

We went to Onkaparinga for a very hard walk (4 hours) with lots of very steep climbs and descents (what goes up must come down). It was very dry, but at least there was some water and we heard a lone frog. An amazing place. Must go back. Got very high and looked down into gorge, then very steep down hill. Rock hop for about an hour and then up hill again. We were sore for days after this one! Link to more Onkaparinga information ... read more

I won’t bore you all. Well maybe just a bit! Just checking that all emails work and letting you all know there are only 2 more sleeps. Our bags have been packed and unpacked and packed again See us in London!!!!!!! Annemarie and Martin ... read more

On our drive back from Ceduna we stopped in on the 2nd largest monolith in Australia - Mt Wudinna! Although we were on a tight timeframe we scaled the giant for a great view of the other granite rocks about the place (like turtle rock). Plenty of bike tracks around. More information about Mt Wudinna... read more

On Wednesday I started my big outback adventure - 8 days in the Australian desert with Wayward bus and the guide-driver crazy Glen. In the morning the group met and we started doing wine tasting in Clare Valley - not really outback, just a good way to start breaking the ice. Getting alcohol was a major motive in the trip also afterwards - with an Aussie guide, 5 English, 5 Irish and other beer-drinking people, it was always fun in the bus. In the first day we drove 500 km to the Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges. That night I built my first tent in my life, and surprisingly it still stood up in the morning! Thursday morning started with a hike to Mount Ohlssen Bagge to have great views over Wilpena pound, that is ... read more